“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.” MayStillsHardGamesSportsHistoryFateBloodSubjectsHard WorkReturnVictoryDisciplineGainsLaborBlindRewardsMetaphorWeatherFarmingSeductiveQuirksVisualizing Author:Garrison Keillor
“Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.” SportsReligiousInspirational LifeMetaphorCracksRitualInspirational SportsReligious Rituals Author:Phillip Adams
“Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.” IfsNeedsWarUseSportsMetaphor Author:John Hodgman